Modern politics has reached the end of its tether. The modern political paradigm—that is, the body of political concepts and beliefs bequeathed to us by the philosophical movement known as the Enlightenment—is no longer intellectually tenable or practically viable. We are therefore in deep political crisis and confront the necessity for an abrupt and decisive change to a radically different type of politics.

- Requiem For Modern Politics, by William Ophuls

The traditional teaching method of “see one, do one, teach one” in surgical residency programs is simple but still applicable

إنّ الهُمومَ نساءٌ تَغار،
فتَحجِبُ صاحِبَها عن همومِ سِواه.
همومُكَ مِثلُ الغواني تُريدُكَ كُلّك،
إنْ شارَكَتهُنّ فيكَ همومُ سِواكَ،
تَحَرَّرتَ مِنْ أسرِهِنّ.

يُشَتِّتنَ عَينَيكَ مِثلَ البغايا،
ويَبنينَ حَولَكَ سِجنًا وجُدرانُه مِن مرايا،
ويُمعِنَّ...
حَدِّق بوَجهِكَ يا نرجِسَ الحُسنِ والحُزن
حدِّق هنا واستَكِن
وافتَتِن،
بجمالِ الضحيّة

Depression can be described sometimes as emotional myopia: you become too short-sighted emotionally, too focused on your own feelings that they get exaggerated and—no matter how insignificant they are—they occupy all your attention.

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"Absence" by Alex Russel Flint

Empty chairs—
poems dedicated to longing.

Notes on ECG:

• RBBB (Right-Bundle Branch Block) is usually benign and can be considered a normal variant in ECG, while LBBB is always pathological.

• Right-axis deviation can be benign especially in tall, thin people. While left-axis deviation is always pathological.

• 1st degree heart block and Mobitz l (wenckebach phenomenon) are also relatively benign in themselves, although they can be signs for other abnormalities like coronary heart disease. Mobitz ll is always pathological.

حصل

ابو الغيرة حتى الهندوراس حاربته

Bot:
شنو الي خلا الناس تخترع العلچ؟ 🗿

Humans have this weird thing where they love to use their mouths for reasons other than talking

Bot:

‘Why so hard?’ the charcoal once said to the diamond; ‘for are we not close relations?’

‘Why so soft? O my brother, thus I ask you: for are you not – my brother?
Why so soft, so unresisting and yielding?’ said the diamond.

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The goddesses of fate by Stanislav Plutenko, 1961.

The Three Fates (Moirai)
by Paul Thumann